Billy Donovan Looks Inward to Address Bulls' Need for Resilience

“We have a lot of really good people in that locker room who care and are committed,” Donovan said following Monday’s short practice but long media session at the Advocate Center. “How do we fight when things get difficult? How do we pull ourselves out of those situations? You have to choose energy. I think it’s hard to be a good team or a good player if you’re driven by feelings. You have to be driven by choices you make.

But given that it’s been a consistent theme of Donovan’s since he arrived, what responsibility does he take for that? “In a lot of ways, people look at adversity as being a really bad thing. In my view, I think it’s the best thing. In my profession of coaching, if I never coached a game that we lost, I don’t think I’d ever be stretched in ways that I’ve been stretched over 35 years. You go through things and have to figure them out.

“I get that. But I also think that when they’re between the lines and they’re frustrated or it’s not going well, from the bench, whether it’s my dialogue or even the bench guys helping, you can help,” Donovan said. “There are days where I’m sure you’ve gone to work and say, ‘I just don’t have it today.’ It happens to all of us. We all have to be responsible to ourselves individually to pull ourselves out of it and also to help the group.

“I mentioned this about DeMar. The thing I admire and respect most about him is his consistency of who he is every single time he walks in the building. Just absolutely zero change. I think from a coaching standpoint, it’s your responsibility to the players to be able to do that as well,” Donovan said. “Now, once we get in film sessions and practice, I think there’s a standard that we have to play to. And we didn’t play to that standard night. And it’s not acceptable.

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